- 7 - timely fashion and on the merits. Petitioners' late and incomplete submissions under the Court's discovery rules, their untimely filed motions to amend their petition, their raising new issues in their briefs that have not been raised either in the original or amended petitions, and their implausible explanations of their conduct in on- and off-the-record conferences with the Court have consistently frustrated the resolution of the issues in this case. Perhaps the most serious violation of the Court's Rules occurred when petitioners attempted to have admitted en masse into evidence on the last day of trial, the 22 boxes of disorganized documents. By holding the record open, the Court simply attempted to give petitioners the opportunity to organize the documents and to make presentations to respondent's representatives that might result in a settlement of issues or in a stipulation of admissibility of some of the documents. Petitioners failed to negotiate any settlement or a stipulation with regard to any of the belatedly submitted documents, and we do not believe it appropriate now to admit such documents into evidence. We shall deny petitioners' motion for reconsideration of the Court's Order granting respondent's motion to close the record. Also, in their opening posttrial briefs, petitioners attempt to raise new issues not previously raised in their original orPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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